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December 2010
During the Christmas season we hear a lot about the joy of
giving. The annual State Employees Combined Campaign
gave Crime Control and Public Safety employees the
opportunity to do just that, and this year’s results are
terrific. Department employees’ donations exceeded last
year’s total by more than $10,000. That gives us reason to
rejoice, not just for the good feelings from being generous,
but for the good that your dollars will do.
CCPS was among a handful of state agencies that
increased their donations and did so at a time when the
need is exceedingly great. You did this despite the
economic downturn that has
affected so many. Thanks to all of
you who took the time to give to your designated charitable
organizations.
Lt. C.J. Stephens with the State Highway Patrol led this years’
combined campaign for the department, and he did an
outstanding job organizing and guiding the team leaders so that
each of you were prepared to give. We thank Lt. Stephens and
the team leaders for all their hard work and effort.
Thanks again to each one of you who opened your hearts to this
yearly request and helped strengthen our communities. Your
donations truly do make a difference in the lives of others.
Happy holidays to you all.
Reuben Young
The Secretary’s Gold Circle Awards
Emergency Management
Corey Johnson, radiological emergency
preparedness planner, took on another role as resource
unit leader, tasked with organizing and leading the Oil
Spill Response Plan project. Johnson addressed more
than an accidental release to include the possibility of an
on-going release of undefined quantities. He was
professional, determined, and enthusiastic. He gained
the recognition of the governor, members of the General
Assembly, county commissioners and town council
members.
David Skordinski is the supervisor for Homeland
Security Grant Management Unit. He worked with the
state’s attorneys to rewrite the memorandums of
agreement for local government pass-through funding
that was being returned to the state to spend on behalf
of local governments. The MOA that Skordinski
developed was readily accepted by the auditors and
recipients.
Alcohol Law Enforcement
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jason
Locklear and Special Agent Christopher
Poole received both the CCPS Meritorious
Service Award and the Secretary’s Gold
Circle Award for their undercover drug
investigation at Triangle Billiards in High
Point. After three months of tireless work,
Locklear and Poole were able to secure
enough evidence to arrest five suspects, including the owner and manager of
Triangle Billiards and seize 1,342 grams of cocaine with a street value of $94,000,
three firearms, marijuana and $2,000 in cash.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Robert
Putnam and Special Agent Mark Lesassier
received the CCPS Meritorious Service
Award and the Secretary’s Gold Circle
Award for two long-term drug investigations,
one involving a tip on a van from Georgia
entering the state with a large quantity of
marijuana, and the other in Charlotte
involving 7,000 pounds of marijuana. In the
first investigation, four suspects were arrested and 230 pounds of marijuana, three
vehicles and $7,000 in cash were seized. In the second, six people were arrested
and in addition to the marijuana, five vehicles and $300,000 were seized.
Special Agent Michael Tobin received the CCPS Meritorious
Service Award and the Secretary’s Gold Circle Award for his
work dismantling numerous criminal street gangs and for his
work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a
task force member. Tobin put in an inordinate amount of time
and effort into the task force while still performing his regular
duties. During a recent gang conference in Durham, Tobin was
given a Special Achievement Award for Operation Community
Shield for his dedication and service in fighting gang violence.
Tobin is the first ALE agent to be given this award.
New Department Controller, Marvin Mervin
Marvin L. Mervin has been named controller for the Department of
Crime Control and Public Safety.
Marvin comes to CCPS with many years of state government
experience. Marvin was employed with the Administrative Office of
the Courts where he served as accounting manager. He has also
held fiscal leadership positions with the Department of Environment
and Natural Resources and the Office of the State Auditor.
Congratulations!
The following employees were promoted:
Administration: Benjamin (Blake) Taylor
State Highway Patrol: Gary Bell, Paul Nelson, Mark Taylor,
Morrissa Walter, Charles Watson and Scott Wellington
The following employees celebrate significant service milestones in their state careers:
40 years
N.C. National Guard: Byron Pittman
Comings and Goings
Welcome to our new employees:
Administration: Marvin Mervin
National Guard: Stephen Bailey, Bobby Byerly, Leonard Capps, Barry
Hanson, Peter Hazelton and Ronald Smith
Emergency Management: Melissa Greene
Butner Public Safety: Cecilia Duke, Ronnie McAdams and Sara Schroeder
State Capitol Police: Don Holton and Bryan Stancil
State Highway Patrol: Jody Patterson
Best wishes to our recent retirees:
State Capitol Police: George Starling
Butner Public Safety: William Pendleton
State Highway Patrol: Timmy Cardwell, Alex Greyard, Tony McNair, Jack Miller,
Kevin Morgan and George Nance
Wanda Barefoot is the payroll supervisor for the
Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. Ever
since she was a young girl, Barefoot has wanted to
work in payroll after she saw her friend’s mother
working on the payroll she had brought home from her
job. It’s a job she now loves to do.
“When I first started, I thought it was a pie job,” Barefoot
said. Now, she says it can be stressful at times with the
many functions and duties she and her two co-workers
must fulfill.
“I like to help people, and it makes me feel good when
other people say, ‘call her, she can help,’” Barefoot said
as she answers employees’ questions about their pay,
taxes, deductions and direct deposits.
If there are any payroll errors, short payments or overpayments, payroll works with the
BEST Shared Servicing Center (Beacon) to resolve the problem.
“So many things can affect your pay now, the type of action, work time, leave time and
work schedule,” Barefoot said. “It’s an automated system. We don’t key payroll like we
used to do.”
Instead, Barefoot and her staff of two have numerous other responsibilities.
Payroll works with the human resource section to ensure employees are paid correctly
and that actions are processed properly. As the funding approver for the agency, she
makes sure the memorandum, transfer list, promotion list, and personnel clearance
forms that payroll receives from all CCPS divisions matches the action for promotions,
new hires, reinstatements and so forth that are processed.
She answers questions from the retirement system, child support and requests for law
enforcement certification. She processes the Special Overtime Project hours to be paid
that are mostly used by the Division of Alcohol Law Enforcement and for the State
Highway Patrol. ALE uses the funding for their undercover operations helping the U.S.
Marshall’s office, the Drug Enforcement Administration task force, U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Raleigh-Durham Area Safe Streets
Task Force and the Raleigh-Durham Area Violent Crimes Fugitive task force. Money
allocated to the State Highway Patrol is used for road checks, inspections and special
operations. When there is a state disaster and the National Guard is called to state
active duty, Payroll is responsible for keying the state duty pay.
When state employees return from military service, Barefood reinstates them and
makes sure they get their credible service while they were away involuntarily.
For those who take leave of absence, the payroll staff verifies that the employee has
time keyed according to the memorandum from the division. They prepare comp time
and leave of absence reports and also key in agency specific deductions such as
parking, life insurance and dental. They also key direct deposit and tax forms, and also
verify employment and retirement forms.
“When it comes down to critical matters like making sure that we all get our paychecks,
it’s good to know that we have someone as conscientious as Wanda in charge of our
Payroll Section,” said assistant secretary Bennie Aiken. “Wanda takes her job
seriously, and we can rely on her to make sure that her very important job gets done.
I’m sure that at least once a month each one of us can be thankful for her efforts.”
A Johnston County native, Barefoot grew up in Benson. She attended South Johnston
High School, earned her GED in 1987 and attended Johnston Community College early,
taking accounting classes.
After several waitressing jobs while in high school, Barefoot joined her mother sewing at
Terry Hill Manufacturers. When the company closed, she and her mom went to a
bathing suit company in Apex.
Her next two jobs were working at local grocery stores where she learned their
computer programs, loading price changes to cash registers. She also made signs,
changed price tags on the shelves, ordered goods and set up displays.
In 1996, she took a temporary state job working for the Division of Motor Vehicles
updating liens on vehicle titles. In 1997, she started working full time as a state
employee in the payroll section for the Department of Transportation. In 2003, she took
a job with the Department of Juvenile Justice as a payroll supervisor. She came to the
Department of Crime Control and Public Safety in 2005, as a payroll supervisor.
As a single mother, she finds balancing work and home challenging. She has two
children, Danielle, 14, who just started high school and Daniel, 9, who excels in math.
Barefoot travels to ball games for both children. Danielle has played volleyball and
softball. Daniel currently is playing basketball and has played baseball and soccer.
They go to church on Wednesday nights, Sunday mornings and evenings.
“My time is mainly surrounded by my children, whatever they want to do,” Barefoot said.
“We like to ride four-wheelers, listen to all kinds of music: beach, country, pop, rock and
Christian. We go fishing, go to the movies, go out to eat, shopping, hang out with family
and friends and cook out.”
Barefoot said she wasn’t much of a reader until she noticed her daughter reading a
book in the Twilight series. She read one and got hooked on the four thick books about
vampires and romance, reading them all in two weeks.
“Then I started reading historical, contemporary and traditional romance novels.” She
reads books by Virginia Henley, Catherine Coulter, Patricia Rice, Christina Dodd and
Nora Roberts.
“I am an easy-going, very determined, passionate kind of person. I can be silly and I
can be serious. I can be outgoing but I can be shy if I don’t know someone. It is easy
to talk to people about payroll because it is something that I know about. And, I try to
make sure I pray every day,” Barefoot added. “I would like to say Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year to everyone!”
SAVING FILES ON A NETWORK (SHARED) DRIVE
By Glenn Mack
Chief Information Officer
CCPS Information Technology Section
All users:
• It is important to save documents to a network drive such
as (M: - shared drive) or (S: - personal drive) rather than
on the local (C:) or (D:) hard drives on your computer. Only
documents that are saved to a network drive are backed
up each night.
• Please be aware that documents saved to My Desktop or
My Documents, are actually saved to the (C:) drive unless
My Documents has been changed to point to the (S:) drive,
otherwise known as your personal drive on the network.
• Documents that you have saved to a network drive are safe if your computer
crashes, and can be restored if accidentally deleted.
The All-Points Bulletin is your newsletter! If you have information you would like
included, please contact the Public Affairs Office at (919) 733-5027 or send e-mail to
pmcquillan@nccrimecontrol.org before the 15th of each month.

December 2010
During the Christmas season we hear a lot about the joy of
giving. The annual State Employees Combined Campaign
gave Crime Control and Public Safety employees the
opportunity to do just that, and this year’s results are
terrific. Department employees’ donations exceeded last
year’s total by more than $10,000. That gives us reason to
rejoice, not just for the good feelings from being generous,
but for the good that your dollars will do.
CCPS was among a handful of state agencies that
increased their donations and did so at a time when the
need is exceedingly great. You did this despite the
economic downturn that has
affected so many. Thanks to all of
you who took the time to give to your designated charitable
organizations.
Lt. C.J. Stephens with the State Highway Patrol led this years’
combined campaign for the department, and he did an
outstanding job organizing and guiding the team leaders so that
each of you were prepared to give. We thank Lt. Stephens and
the team leaders for all their hard work and effort.
Thanks again to each one of you who opened your hearts to this
yearly request and helped strengthen our communities. Your
donations truly do make a difference in the lives of others.
Happy holidays to you all.
Reuben Young
The Secretary’s Gold Circle Awards
Emergency Management
Corey Johnson, radiological emergency
preparedness planner, took on another role as resource
unit leader, tasked with organizing and leading the Oil
Spill Response Plan project. Johnson addressed more
than an accidental release to include the possibility of an
on-going release of undefined quantities. He was
professional, determined, and enthusiastic. He gained
the recognition of the governor, members of the General
Assembly, county commissioners and town council
members.
David Skordinski is the supervisor for Homeland
Security Grant Management Unit. He worked with the
state’s attorneys to rewrite the memorandums of
agreement for local government pass-through funding
that was being returned to the state to spend on behalf
of local governments. The MOA that Skordinski
developed was readily accepted by the auditors and
recipients.
Alcohol Law Enforcement
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jason
Locklear and Special Agent Christopher
Poole received both the CCPS Meritorious
Service Award and the Secretary’s Gold
Circle Award for their undercover drug
investigation at Triangle Billiards in High
Point. After three months of tireless work,
Locklear and Poole were able to secure
enough evidence to arrest five suspects, including the owner and manager of
Triangle Billiards and seize 1,342 grams of cocaine with a street value of $94,000,
three firearms, marijuana and $2,000 in cash.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Robert
Putnam and Special Agent Mark Lesassier
received the CCPS Meritorious Service
Award and the Secretary’s Gold Circle
Award for two long-term drug investigations,
one involving a tip on a van from Georgia
entering the state with a large quantity of
marijuana, and the other in Charlotte
involving 7,000 pounds of marijuana. In the
first investigation, four suspects were arrested and 230 pounds of marijuana, three
vehicles and $7,000 in cash were seized. In the second, six people were arrested
and in addition to the marijuana, five vehicles and $300,000 were seized.
Special Agent Michael Tobin received the CCPS Meritorious
Service Award and the Secretary’s Gold Circle Award for his
work dismantling numerous criminal street gangs and for his
work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a
task force member. Tobin put in an inordinate amount of time
and effort into the task force while still performing his regular
duties. During a recent gang conference in Durham, Tobin was
given a Special Achievement Award for Operation Community
Shield for his dedication and service in fighting gang violence.
Tobin is the first ALE agent to be given this award.
New Department Controller, Marvin Mervin
Marvin L. Mervin has been named controller for the Department of
Crime Control and Public Safety.
Marvin comes to CCPS with many years of state government
experience. Marvin was employed with the Administrative Office of
the Courts where he served as accounting manager. He has also
held fiscal leadership positions with the Department of Environment
and Natural Resources and the Office of the State Auditor.
Congratulations!
The following employees were promoted:
Administration: Benjamin (Blake) Taylor
State Highway Patrol: Gary Bell, Paul Nelson, Mark Taylor,
Morrissa Walter, Charles Watson and Scott Wellington
The following employees celebrate significant service milestones in their state careers:
40 years
N.C. National Guard: Byron Pittman
Comings and Goings
Welcome to our new employees:
Administration: Marvin Mervin
National Guard: Stephen Bailey, Bobby Byerly, Leonard Capps, Barry
Hanson, Peter Hazelton and Ronald Smith
Emergency Management: Melissa Greene
Butner Public Safety: Cecilia Duke, Ronnie McAdams and Sara Schroeder
State Capitol Police: Don Holton and Bryan Stancil
State Highway Patrol: Jody Patterson
Best wishes to our recent retirees:
State Capitol Police: George Starling
Butner Public Safety: William Pendleton
State Highway Patrol: Timmy Cardwell, Alex Greyard, Tony McNair, Jack Miller,
Kevin Morgan and George Nance
Wanda Barefoot is the payroll supervisor for the
Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. Ever
since she was a young girl, Barefoot has wanted to
work in payroll after she saw her friend’s mother
working on the payroll she had brought home from her
job. It’s a job she now loves to do.
“When I first started, I thought it was a pie job,” Barefoot
said. Now, she says it can be stressful at times with the
many functions and duties she and her two co-workers
must fulfill.
“I like to help people, and it makes me feel good when
other people say, ‘call her, she can help,’” Barefoot said
as she answers employees’ questions about their pay,
taxes, deductions and direct deposits.
If there are any payroll errors, short payments or overpayments, payroll works with the
BEST Shared Servicing Center (Beacon) to resolve the problem.
“So many things can affect your pay now, the type of action, work time, leave time and
work schedule,” Barefoot said. “It’s an automated system. We don’t key payroll like we
used to do.”
Instead, Barefoot and her staff of two have numerous other responsibilities.
Payroll works with the human resource section to ensure employees are paid correctly
and that actions are processed properly. As the funding approver for the agency, she
makes sure the memorandum, transfer list, promotion list, and personnel clearance
forms that payroll receives from all CCPS divisions matches the action for promotions,
new hires, reinstatements and so forth that are processed.
She answers questions from the retirement system, child support and requests for law
enforcement certification. She processes the Special Overtime Project hours to be paid
that are mostly used by the Division of Alcohol Law Enforcement and for the State
Highway Patrol. ALE uses the funding for their undercover operations helping the U.S.
Marshall’s office, the Drug Enforcement Administration task force, U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Raleigh-Durham Area Safe Streets
Task Force and the Raleigh-Durham Area Violent Crimes Fugitive task force. Money
allocated to the State Highway Patrol is used for road checks, inspections and special
operations. When there is a state disaster and the National Guard is called to state
active duty, Payroll is responsible for keying the state duty pay.
When state employees return from military service, Barefood reinstates them and
makes sure they get their credible service while they were away involuntarily.
For those who take leave of absence, the payroll staff verifies that the employee has
time keyed according to the memorandum from the division. They prepare comp time
and leave of absence reports and also key in agency specific deductions such as
parking, life insurance and dental. They also key direct deposit and tax forms, and also
verify employment and retirement forms.
“When it comes down to critical matters like making sure that we all get our paychecks,
it’s good to know that we have someone as conscientious as Wanda in charge of our
Payroll Section,” said assistant secretary Bennie Aiken. “Wanda takes her job
seriously, and we can rely on her to make sure that her very important job gets done.
I’m sure that at least once a month each one of us can be thankful for her efforts.”
A Johnston County native, Barefoot grew up in Benson. She attended South Johnston
High School, earned her GED in 1987 and attended Johnston Community College early,
taking accounting classes.
After several waitressing jobs while in high school, Barefoot joined her mother sewing at
Terry Hill Manufacturers. When the company closed, she and her mom went to a
bathing suit company in Apex.
Her next two jobs were working at local grocery stores where she learned their
computer programs, loading price changes to cash registers. She also made signs,
changed price tags on the shelves, ordered goods and set up displays.
In 1996, she took a temporary state job working for the Division of Motor Vehicles
updating liens on vehicle titles. In 1997, she started working full time as a state
employee in the payroll section for the Department of Transportation. In 2003, she took
a job with the Department of Juvenile Justice as a payroll supervisor. She came to the
Department of Crime Control and Public Safety in 2005, as a payroll supervisor.
As a single mother, she finds balancing work and home challenging. She has two
children, Danielle, 14, who just started high school and Daniel, 9, who excels in math.
Barefoot travels to ball games for both children. Danielle has played volleyball and
softball. Daniel currently is playing basketball and has played baseball and soccer.
They go to church on Wednesday nights, Sunday mornings and evenings.
“My time is mainly surrounded by my children, whatever they want to do,” Barefoot said.
“We like to ride four-wheelers, listen to all kinds of music: beach, country, pop, rock and
Christian. We go fishing, go to the movies, go out to eat, shopping, hang out with family
and friends and cook out.”
Barefoot said she wasn’t much of a reader until she noticed her daughter reading a
book in the Twilight series. She read one and got hooked on the four thick books about
vampires and romance, reading them all in two weeks.
“Then I started reading historical, contemporary and traditional romance novels.” She
reads books by Virginia Henley, Catherine Coulter, Patricia Rice, Christina Dodd and
Nora Roberts.
“I am an easy-going, very determined, passionate kind of person. I can be silly and I
can be serious. I can be outgoing but I can be shy if I don’t know someone. It is easy
to talk to people about payroll because it is something that I know about. And, I try to
make sure I pray every day,” Barefoot added. “I would like to say Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year to everyone!”
SAVING FILES ON A NETWORK (SHARED) DRIVE
By Glenn Mack
Chief Information Officer
CCPS Information Technology Section
All users:
• It is important to save documents to a network drive such
as (M: - shared drive) or (S: - personal drive) rather than
on the local (C:) or (D:) hard drives on your computer. Only
documents that are saved to a network drive are backed
up each night.
• Please be aware that documents saved to My Desktop or
My Documents, are actually saved to the (C:) drive unless
My Documents has been changed to point to the (S:) drive,
otherwise known as your personal drive on the network.
• Documents that you have saved to a network drive are safe if your computer
crashes, and can be restored if accidentally deleted.
The All-Points Bulletin is your newsletter! If you have information you would like
included, please contact the Public Affairs Office at (919) 733-5027 or send e-mail to
pmcquillan@nccrimecontrol.org before the 15th of each month.